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Brazil is not requiring OS level age verification. This information is false.
I checked again at the law and it seems it says operating systems directly.
The law and a review for the federated world made by another user that I'm not remembering. (It's in portuguese)
Edit:
CAPÍTULO IV
DOS MECANISMOS DE AFERIÇÃO DE IDADE
Art. 10. Os fornecedores de produtos ou serviços de tecnologia da informação direcionados a crianças e a adolescentes ou de acesso provável por eles deverão adotar mecanismos para proporcionar experiências adequadas à idade, nos termos deste Capítulo, respeitadas a autonomia progressiva e a diversidade de contextos socioeconômicos.
Only products or services that are directed at children or teenagers or with probable access to them should do age verification.
[...]
Art. 12. Os provedores de lojas de aplicações de internet e de sistemas operacionais de terminais deverão:
I – tomar medidas proporcionais, auditáveis e tecnicamente seguras para aferir a idade ou a faixa etária dos usuários, observados os princípios previstos no art. 6º da Lei nº 13.709, de 14 de agosto de 2018 (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais);
The App Store providers and terminal operating systems should:
Give proportional, auditable and tecnically secure ways to do age verification.
I'm going to install templeos.
But what's a terminal operating system in this context?
Who knows? Probably not even the legislators, but I'm already seeing every judge accepting this as everything that's on a computer, the smartphones being represented at the app store obligation.
Whether it is or is not doesn't really matter, none of the major operating system are developed in Brazil so there are really no consequences for ignoring the law, what are they going to do, ban all computers? Good luck with that.
Redhat has a huge consumer, the Brazilian government, a lot of developers are in brazil, etc. Cachyos (the distro I use) seems to not want to do anything, but when the law enters into action, it's easier to just block all brazilian ips, like my computer updating. As the government can sue and do other things.
É verdade. Que país bosta.